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Elijah Muhammad was the leader of the Nation of Islam from 1934 to 1975. He was born Elijah Poole in Georgia in 1897. In 1930, he met Wallace Fard Muhammad, the founder of the Nation of Islam. Fard Muhammad appointed Poole to be his successor, and Poole assumed the leadership of the Nation of Islam after Fard Muhammad’s disappearance in 1934.